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Discusses the impact of poverty on student achievement and social capital among poor children. Focuses on issues that may be addressed in the classroom, such as physical arrangement and management strategies. Includes classroom arrangement strategies, establishing rules of conduct and appropriate consequences, and both preventing disruptive behavior and responding the needs that underlie that behavior.
Discusses the role of high school teachers in supporting a positive school climate. Includes promising approaches to increasing access to effective teaching for under served students and policy recommendations for creating a positive school climate.
Provides strategies to identify drug endangered children and those at risk of abuse and neglect. Includes an easy-to-use collection of training materials, videos, articles, and other resources.
Helps educators understand the various forms that sex and labor trafficking of young people, individual and social risk factors and school-specific indicators of trafficking. The brief also includes a series of 'safety check' questions to use when talking with students who may have been trafficked, and additional resources.
Highlights the research, policies, and practices that are transforming schools, supporting teachers, and empowering youth voice. Each blog discusses a different issue related to discipline disparities and presents suggestions for how to promote positive relationships between teachers and students.
Offers a definition of human trafficking, a brief overview of who is at risk, and behavioral, physical and social indicators of trafficking that might be observed by school personnel. Also, it includes the number to call to report suspected trafficking, and a reminder about the importance of engaging law enforcement in order to protect students' and staff's safety.
Provides a unifying framework for schools, families, and communities to understand, select, and organize their learning supports (i.e., strategies, programs, and practices used to create conditions to enhance learning).
Provides guidance for the types of measures related to social and emotional learning and development and school climate available for states and districts to use. This guide shares important factors to consider when deciding on a resource or tool for measuring social and emotional learning and school climate.
Provides an in depth explanation on what student centered learning is, how it has impacted student learning, how it has impacted teacher's methods of teaching, and how it has changed the structure of the school by examining the case study of a small school in Maine that is the in midst of using this innovative approach to education.